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| name   = Pride and Prejudice
| Author = Jane Austen
| Title = Pride and Prejudice
| Cover Image = PrideAndPrejudiceTitlePage.jpg
| Publish Date = 1813-01-28
}}

'''''Pride and Prejudice''''' is a romance novel by [[Jane Austen]], first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, [[Elizabeth Bennet]], who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essentially. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of [[manners]], [[education]], and [[marriage]] and [[money]] in the [[Regency era|British Regency]].

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Mr Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. Since his wife had no fortune, it is imperative that one of the girls marries well in order to support the others on his death. However, Jane Austen's opening line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the necessity (contracted; show full)ginal title was altered to avoid confusion with other works. In the years between the completion of ''First Impressions'' and its revision into ''Pride and Prejudice'', two other works had been published under that name: a novel by [[Margaret Holford]] and a comedy by [[Horace Smith (poet)|Horace Smith]].<ref name="Rogers" />

==Publication history==
[[File:Brock Pride and Prejudice.jpg|thumb|Title page of a 1907 edition illustrated by [[C. E. Brock]]
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Austen sold the copyright for the novel to Thomas Egerton from the Military Library, Whitehall in exchange for £110 (Austen had asked for £150).<ref name=OWC>{{cite book | author = Stafford, Fiona | chapter = Notes on the Text | title = Pride and Prejudice | series = Oxford World's Classics (ed. James Kinley) | location = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-19-280238-0}}</ref> This proved a costly decision. Austen had published ''[[Sense and Se(contracted; show full)
* {{gutenberg|no=42671|name=Pride and Prejudice (Chapman edition)}}
* [http://epublib.info/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen Pride and Prejudice] ePub/Mobi version
* [http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html#toc Annotated HTML hypertext of ''Pride and Prejudice'']
* {{librivox book | title=Pride and Prejudice | author=Jane Austen}}

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